Belt-hook slide



'(No Model.)

L. SANDERS. BELT HOOK SLIDE No. 532,708. Patented Jan. 15, 1895 0 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAVIIIIIIIIIIIIIII/ll.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS SANDERS, of:

LOUIS SANDERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BELT-HOOK SLIDE.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Ifatent No. 532,708, dated January 15, 1895.

Application filed August 21, 1894. s nate. 520,900. (No model.)

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Belt-Hook Slide, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a belt hook slide, and it has for its object to provide a slide capable of attachment to a belt whether it be on a person or off, the said slide being so constructed as to afford a support for the skirt, keeping the skirt band effectually concealed beneath the belt; and another object of the invention is to so construct the belt hook slide that the beltitselfiwill be prevented from wrinkling or puckering.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improved .belt hook slide, viewed from the rear and detached from the belt. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of a section of the belt, illustrating the attachment of the slide thereto; and

Fig. 3 is a section taken horizontally 0n the line 3--3 of Fig. 2. V

In carrying out the invention the slide consists of a bar A, a plate or the equivalent thereof, which may be plain or decorated, and is' of a length slightly greater than the width of the belt B in connection with which it is to be used. The body of the slide has attached to its back an eye 10, the said eye being located at or near the bottom of the body, while a spring pin 11, is secured preferably to the upper portion of the body, and is adapted for. engagement with the eye. The pin is of sufficient length to extend not only below the eye but likewise below the lower end of the body a predetermined distance, and the lower extremity of the pin is bent upward and inward to form a hook 12, as is best shown in Fig. 1. An auxiliary pin 13, is likewise secured to the back portion of the body near the bottom thereof, preferably a slight distance above the eye 10, the auxiliary pin being given a downward inclination toward the eye. This auxiliary pin is secured in place slightly to one side of the plane in which the spring pin 11 moves, so that when said pin 11 is depressed and its end placed within the eye 10, said auxiliary pin 13 will not be bentthereby.

- In the operation of this device, the slide is placed upon the belt, one or more being used as occasion may demand, and in placing the slide the body is located upon the outer face of the belt, while the pin is made to extend downward over the inner face. The eye of the body, when the device is in position upon the belt, will be slightly lower than the lower edge of the belt, as shown in Fig. 2, and the pin 11 is then made to engage with the eye,

whereby a loop is formed at the back of the body. The belt is prevented from sliding in the said loop, and is likewise prevented from puckering or gathering up from the bottom, bycausing the auxiliary pin 13 to enter the belt at or near the lower margin, as is shown in both Figs. 2 and 3. The belt being in position upon the body, the hook 12 of the main or locking pin is engaged with the skirt, and when engaged forms a support for the skirt, preventing the latter from sagging and thus dragging the waist band from beneath the belt.

'Under the foregoing construction of the slide a belt may be'worn with comfort, and will always have a neat appearance, and the meeting line of the waist and skirt will be concealed. Preferably the same material which constitutes the locking pin 11 is carried down along the inner face of the body, and is made to terminate in the said eye 10.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire'to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. A belt slide or thelike comprising a body, having at one end of its rear side an eye and at the other end, a spring pin adapted to en-' ter and be retained by the said eye, and an auxiliary pin secured to and projecting from the rear side of the body, substantially asset forth.

2. A belt slide or the like comprising a body, an eye arranged at one end thereof, a spring pin connected to the other end of the body and adapted to be secured at its free end within and be retained by the said eye, the extremity of said free end being provided with a sharpened hook 12, and an auxiliary pin secured to and projecting obliquely from the central portion of the body, substantially as set forth.

LOUIS SANDERS. \Vitnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, (3. SEDGWIOK. 

